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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Shrewsbury 29 --Caption title. Width of road: 37 ft. Traveled way: width 18 ft., grade 3 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 3 in., soft and rough with loose stones material: dirt and gravel sides: right, covered with trees, slopes up, left, covered with trees, slopes up gutters: right, at edge of travelled way 4 in. deep, left, at edge of travelled way 3 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Sides drain into gutters, which being so shallow fill, causing water to run down travelled way. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.